Therefore, we are planning to fabricate electrodes that consist of only tungsten and to measure

the carrier mobilities of bismuth nanowires with diameters of several hundred nanometers. Authors’ information MM is a Ph.D. candidate under Associate Professor YH in the Department of Engineering, Saitama University, Japan. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Dr. Takashi Komine at Ibaraki University for his assistance selleck screening library in this research. This research was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) BIBF 1120 chemical structure Fellows, a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), and Leading Industrial Technology Development Project Grant Funds of NEDO, TEPCO Memorial Foundation, Inamori Foundation, and Takahashi Industrial and Economic Research Foundation. Part of this research was supported by the Low-Carbon Research Network (Lcnet) and the Nanotechnology Network Program (Center for Nanotechnology Network, National Institute for Material Science) funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. This work was performed under the auspices of the National Institute

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